Chapter 7 Test (5th-science)
chapter 7 5th grade science
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- mesosphere
- layer where meteoroids burn up
- Sea of Tranquility
- large lunar plain where the first astronauts landed
- airglow
- light created from ions in the atmosphere
- Betelgeuse
- star in the constellation Orion
- Pluto
- once considered the smallest planet, now a known as a dwarf planet
- Mercury
- planet closest to the sun
- Orion, Big Dipper, and Little Dipper
- names of constellations
- Jupiter
- planet that has the Great Red Spot
- Uranus
- planet that's tipped on its side
- air pressure
- weight of atmosphere that pushes down on the earth
- crescent
- first phase after a new moon
- corona
- outer layer of the sun
- Earth
- the only planet with life
- chromosphere
- sun's sphere of color that cannot be seen through a telescope
- constellation
- star groups
- lunar eclipse
- occurs when the moon passes through the earth's shadow
- troposphere
- lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere
- stratosphere
- the layer that aircraft fly through to escape turbulence
- ozone
- protects us from ultraviolet rays
- 93,000,000 miles
- distance from the earth to the sun